Shifting monsoonal climate patterns that affect the availability of water in the Mekong River Basin are raising questions among experts about the sustainability of hydropower as a long-term energy ...

making every effort to maintain the security and stability of the Mekong River Basin and serving its economic and social development," he said. Compared to the previous three generations of ...

This basin-wide initiative includes 15 additional ... but I still eat it,” he says with a small shrug. When the Mekong River reaches Vietnam, the waterway flows out into a vast network of ...

The bumper catch in the Mekong River Basin has boosted hopes of a revival of the critically endangered species, which is among the world's largest freshwater fish. Fishermen released the fish ...

“You have to in some sense look at the Mekong as a game board, one where you can decide to put a dam here and not there and by doing so maintain the ecological functioning of the whole river basin.

River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Its basin is dotted with 190 ...

were recently discovered and released back into the Mekong River Basin. This unprecedented event offers hope for the species' revival, as conservationists gain crucial information about their ...

The bumper catch in the Mekong River Basin has boosted hopes of a revival of the critically endangered species, which is among the world's largest freshwater fish. Fishermen released the fish ...

On Son Island in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Le Trung Tin scatters fish feed into his ponds, where dozens of snakehead fish leap through the surface in synchronised bursts. “I taught them how to do that,” ...

As babies, they feed on zooplankton in the river and are known to be cannibalistic ... These giant catfish were once plentiful throughout the Mekong basin, but their numbers are believed to ...